A simple change in tipping could take $5.8 billion from American waiters, bussers, and bartenders

A simple change in tipping could take $5.8 billion from American waiters, bussers, and bartenders

The US Department of Labor (DOL) wants to do away with tips, by making it legal for employers to pool their workers’ tips as long as they’re paid minimum wage. But the proposed policy is contentious—no one can agree what happens to the tips, once they’re pooled. At first blush, tip pooling seems egalitarian. Danny…